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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
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Subject: Re: \"FAST\" protocol proposal from Hayes
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Date: Fri, 15-Aug-86 19:43:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: omen.385
Posted: Fri Aug 15 19:43:11 1986
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Organization: Omen Technology, Portland
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Keywords: errors reliability end-to-end CRC

In article  davids@iscuva.UUCP (David Schmidt) writes:
:
:If you read the documentation carefully you will see that the FAST
:protocal does include the capability of using a CCITT CRC-16 check
:on the file sent.  If this is uses (I wouldn't use FAST without it!)
:then you do have an error-free protocal.
:
The "FAST" protocol does not have any error recovery procedures.
Although "FAST" is only very slightly more efficient than ZMODEM, 
"FAST" lacks ZMODEM's error recovery, file management features, and
user interface improvements.  "FAST" also lacks ZMODEM's extensibility
for process to process communications and control.

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